Term Information

Accession
GO:0000038
Name
very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
very long chain fatty acid metabolic process, very-long-chain fatty acid metabolic process, very-long-chain fatty acid metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving a very long chain fatty acid, a fatty acid with an aliphatic tail of 22 or more carbons. Source: GOC:hjd
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0000038 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0000038)
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very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0006631)
Children of very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0000038)
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very long-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0042761) [is_a relation] is_a  very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process
very long-chain fatty acid catabolic process (GO:0042760) [is_a relation] is_a  very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process
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